The Dad fleet sailed westward, heading straight for Pandora Island.
When they were 50 nautical miles away from Pandora Island, a waterborne dock appeared on the sea surface, resembling a trading market in a no-man's-land.
This kind of artificial dock on the sea is rarely seen except in calm and desolate areas.
The planks of the trading area in the no-man's-land were suspended on the sea surface without any foundation. They were only tied to the bottom to prevent them from being washed away by the wind and waves.
However, Raine had already seen the metal base of these sea planks, which were actually anchored in the underwater rocks! The artificial dock here was at least several kilometers long!
This project required a lot of metal, and most importantly, building such a large-scale artificial dock was extremely difficult and required a lot of sea-type mutants to work underwater.
"No wonder he's a legendary captain, he's really bold." Raine couldn't help but marvel. He was certain that he couldn't build such an artificial dock around an island.
Many ships were docked in front of the dock, including the fleets that had several hundred. However, no matter how large the fleet was, all ships would be parked at the dock.
While Raine was hesitating about whether he should stop here, two figures plunged from the sky and landed smoothly on Raine's aircraft carrier.
These two people were wearing the uniform of a naval lieutenant, white military uniforms with blue outerwear, and a pair of wings on their backs.
After landing, the two men looked around at the surrounding aircraft and were somewhat surprised. However, they did not stay long and walked up to Raine and the others with great professionalism.
"Excuse me, which one of you is the leader of this fleet?"
"I am," Raine said. "And who are you two?"
"Huh? Ethan! Evan!" Shobe exclaimed in surprise among the people behind Raine.
"Shobe?! What are you doing here?" The two men also saw the tall Shobe and were surprised.
"Hahaha, I'm one of the captains of the Dad now. Come on, let me introduce you to the commander. Captain, they are my former comrades!"
After some introduction, Raine learned that the two men had worked with Shobe before and had a good relationship due to their similar temperament. Unexpectedly, they were now working under General Trajan.
After hearing each other's stories, Shobe and the brothers couldn't help but sigh. Ten years had passed, and the three of them who had once shared the same dream were now in different positions: one had become the captain of a bounty fleet, while the other two had followed General Trajan and were living a somewhat reclusive life.
"Oh, by the way, Captain Raine," Ethan brought the topic back, "are you guys also here for the tournament?"
Raine nodded. His crew members were eager to go, so he had no intention of stopping them. "This is the invitation we snatched, I don't know if it's valid."
Ethan took the invitation from Raine and quickly glanced at it. "Oh, this is no problem. The invitations we sent out don't have names on them. As long as you have an invitation, it's fine."
"However, your invitation is a C-level one, so you only have five spots. You need to park your fleet here and take our small boat to Pandora Island. You can bring a maximum of ten people."
Raine couldn't help but be surprised. After all, Austin was one of the ten kings of the King class sea, and he only got a C-level invitation. It didn't seem very prestigious.
But Raine didn't dwell on it. He was only here to watch the show.
"So how does this tournament work?" Shobe asked.
Ethan and Evan were old friends with Shobe, and they had nothing to hide from him. "Oh, we will choose three candidates, and these three will have to fight our young lady. If they can defeat her, they will have the chance to stay until the end."
"What if all three candidates defeat your young lady?" Shobe asked.
Ethan and his brother smiled at each other. "Shobe. General Trajan doesn't allow us to reveal too much, but let's just say, don't underestimate our young lady."
It seemed that the two were very confident in their young lady's abilities.
As government officials, Ethan and Evan were responsible for managing the docking of ships here, so they were very busy. After a brief chat, they got down to business.
"Captain Raine, you need to choose ten people. What do you think?"
Raine nodded. His ship was parked here, and even though the Xuan brothers promised that no one would touch it, he was still a little worried.
In the end, based on everyone's strong desires, a total of ten people followed Raine to Pandora Island.
Raine, Fancy, Armin, Shobe, Onebear, Twobear, Charge King, Trueword, Shane, and a newcomer named Lindy, who had recently shown impressive performance.
Due to Shobe's relationship, Raine also managed to get White on board.
The Pandora was a passenger ship that could accommodate forty to fifty people. Raine and his group waited until enough people had gathered to fill the ship before setting off to the island.
As the ship sailed on the sea, the people on board were excited, looking forward to the competition.
"I heard that the One Emperor and the Ten Kings will all be coming this time. General Trajan really has a big face," someone said.
"Of course. General Trajan is a legendary captain in the King class Sea, and even the Ice Emperor would not dare to call himself a legendary captain. Being able to marry into General Trajan's family is like reaching the sky in one step," another person replied.
"By the way, has anyone seen General Trajan's granddaughter?"
"I haven't. But to be honest, the last time I came to Pandora Island, I saw General Trajan. Although he has an impressive presence, he doesn't seem to be very good-looking. Maybe his granddaughter isn't that pretty either."
"Hey, pretty or not doesn't matter. There are few beautiful women at sea. The key is status. That is an unimaginable status!"
Raine secretly listened to their conversation and agreed with them to some extent. There weren't many beautiful women at sea, and there weren't many on his ship.
Fancy was undeniably beautiful, like a girl who had walked out of an anime, but the problem was that she was a bit...hmmm...thick.
Avril was quite pretty, but she had freckles on her face, which didn't affect her overall appearance too much but detracted from her perfect skin tone.
Armin was relatively quiet, but she seemed to like holding a book all day, which made her a bit less lively.
Arsan had a perfect body proportions, but she was a bit too tall at 1.8 meters, which was a bit intimidating.
Raine still wasn't sure what Truequeen looked like. She always dressed like her brother, hiding in a black robe, and her figure couldn't be seen.
Windbell didn't like to dress up, and she had a bad temper. It seemed like all the women who followed Trueking had a bad temper.
Raine held this opinion, but as people around him discussed more and more, their eyes fell upon Fancy and Armin.
A few whispered under their breaths.
"Wow, that girl is so beautiful...I've never seen a girl so beautiful before."
"She's beautiful indeed. If General Trajan's granddaughter looked like her, I would definitely give it a try."
"The other woman is beautiful as well, she's my type! My god, she's my goddess! I really like her!"
"What fleet are they from? Let me check when I get back..."
Raine was indifferent to the hushed whispers of these people. If they dared to provoke him, they would only be asking for trouble.
Soon, a small passenger ship docked, and Raine and his people were the first to disembark.
"Sir, please show your invitation and confirm the participant for the tournament."
Raine handed over the invitation and turned to the crew, "Who wants to go?"
Onebear, Tureword, Shane, and Lindy signed up.
"Hmm? Twobear, aren't you going?"
"Captain, it's not appropriate for me to compete with my brother. I'll just skip it. I'll cheer for my brother!" Twobear said regretfully.
"Alright. Shobe, what about you? Didn't you say you were going to participate? You're not exactly young anymore."
"Captain, Ethan said I'm past the age limit," Shobe said, holding a cigar and shaking his head. "What's wrong with being 35? Can't I pursue happiness at 35?"
"Shobe, let it go. You're like me, just here to see our idol," Charge King said, stopping Shobe by the shoulder.
"You guys... I should've asked someone else to come, "Raine grumbled.
"Well, then it's just the four of us. We'll take four spots," Raine said, turning to the staff with an indifferent expression.
The Dad fleet sailed westward, heading straight for Pandora Island.
When they were 50 nautical miles away from Pandora Island, a waterborne dock appeared on the sea surface, resembling a trading market in a no-man's-land.
This kind of artificial dock on the sea is rarely seen except in calm and desolate areas.
The planks of the trading area in the no-man's-land were suspended on the sea surface without any foundation. They were only tied to the bottom to prevent them from being washed away by the wind and waves.
However, Raine had already seen the metal base of these sea planks, which were actually anchored in the underwater rocks! The artificial dock here was at least several kilometers long!
This project required a lot of metal, and most importantly, building such a large-scale artificial dock was extremely difficult and required a lot of sea-type mutants to work underwater.
"No wonder he's a legendary captain, he's really bold." Raine couldn't help but marvel. He was certain that he couldn't build such an artificial dock around an island.
Many ships were docked in front of the dock, including the fleets that had several hundred. However, no matter how large the fleet was, all ships would be parked at the dock.
While Raine was hesitating about whether he should stop here, two figures plunged from the sky and landed smoothly on Raine's aircraft carrier.
These two people were wearing the uniform of a naval lieutenant, white military uniforms with blue outerwear, and a pair of wings on their backs.
After landing, the two men looked around at the surrounding aircraft and were somewhat surprised. However, they did not stay long and walked up to Raine and the others with great professionalism.
"Excuse me, which one of you is the leader of this fleet?"
"I am," Raine said. "And who are you two?"
"Huh? Ethan! Evan!" Shobe exclaimed in surprise among the people behind Raine.
"Shobe?! What are you doing here?" The two men also saw the tall Shobe and were surprised.
"Hahaha, I'm one of the captains of the Dad now. Come on, let me introduce you to the commander. Captain, they are my former comrades!"
After some introduction, Raine learned that the two men had worked with Shobe before and had a good relationship due to their similar temperament. Unexpectedly, they were now working under General Trajan.
After hearing each other's stories, Shobe and the brothers couldn't help but sigh. Ten years had passed, and the three of them who had once shared the same dream were now in different positions: one had become the captain of a bounty fleet, while the other two had followed General Trajan and were living a somewhat reclusive life.
"Oh, by the way, Captain Raine," Ethan brought the topic back, "are you guys also here for the tournament?"
Raine nodded. His crew members were eager to go, so he had no intention of stopping them. "This is the invitation we snatched, I don't know if it's valid."
Ethan took the invitation from Raine and quickly glanced at it. "Oh, this is no problem. The invitations we sent out don't have names on them. As long as you have an invitation, it's fine."
"However, your invitation is a C-level one, so you only have five spots. You need to park your fleet here and take our small boat to Pandora Island. You can bring a maximum of ten people."
Raine couldn't help but be surprised. After all, Austin was one of the ten kings of the King class sea, and he only got a C-level invitation. It didn't seem very prestigious.
But Raine didn't dwell on it. He was only here to watch the show.
"So how does this tournament work?" Shobe asked.
Ethan and Evan were old friends with Shobe, and they had nothing to hide from him. "Oh, we will choose three candidates, and these three will have to fight our young lady. If they can defeat her, they will have the chance to stay until the end."
"What if all three candidates defeat your young lady?" Shobe asked.
Ethan and his brother smiled at each other. "Shobe. General Trajan doesn't allow us to reveal too much, but let's just say, don't underestimate our young lady."
It seemed that the two were very confident in their young lady's abilities.
As government officials, Ethan and Evan were responsible for managing the docking of ships here, so they were very busy. After a brief chat, they got down to business.
"Captain Raine, you need to choose ten people. What do you think?"
Raine nodded. His ship was parked here, and even though the Xuan brothers promised that no one would touch it, he was still a little worried.
In the end, based on everyone's strong desires, a total of ten people followed Raine to Pandora Island.
Raine, Fancy, Armin, Shobe, Onebear, Twobear, Charge King, Trueword, Shane, and a newcomer named Lindy, who had recently shown impressive performance.
Due to Shobe's relationship, Raine also managed to get White on board.
The Pandora was a passenger ship that could accommodate forty to fifty people. Raine and his group waited until enough people had gathered to fill the ship before setting off to the island.
As the ship sailed on the sea, the people on board were excited, looking forward to the competition.
"I heard that the One Emperor and the Ten Kings will all be coming this time. General Trajan really has a big face," someone said.
"Of course. General Trajan is a legendary captain in the King class Sea, and even the Ice Emperor would not dare to call himself a legendary captain. Being able to marry into General Trajan's family is like reaching the sky in one step," another person replied.
"By the way, has anyone seen General Trajan's granddaughter?"
"I haven't. But to be honest, the last time I came to Pandora Island, I saw General Trajan. Although he has an impressive presence, he doesn't seem to be very good-looking. Maybe his granddaughter isn't that pretty either."
"Hey, pretty or not doesn't matter. There are few beautiful women at sea. The key is status. That is an unimaginable status!"
Raine secretly listened to their conversation and agreed with them to some extent. There weren't many beautiful women at sea, and there weren't many on his ship.
Fancy was undeniably beautiful, like a girl who had walked out of an anime, but the problem was that she was a bit...hmmm...thick.
Avril was quite pretty, but she had freckles on her face, which didn't affect her overall appearance too much but detracted from her perfect skin tone.
Armin was relatively quiet, but she seemed to like holding a book all day, which made her a bit less lively.
Arsan had a perfect body proportions, but she was a bit too tall at 1.8 meters, which was a bit intimidating.
Raine still wasn't sure what Truequeen looked like. She always dressed like her brother, hiding in a black robe, and her figure couldn't be seen.
Windbell didn't like to dress up, and she had a bad temper. It seemed like all the women who followed Trueking had a bad temper.
Raine held this opinion, but as people around him discussed more and more, their eyes fell upon Fancy and Armin.
A few whispered under their breaths.
"Wow, that girl is so beautiful...I've never seen a girl so beautiful before."
"She's beautiful indeed. If General Trajan's granddaughter looked like her, I would definitely give it a try."
"The other woman is beautiful as well, she's my type! My god, she's my goddess! I really like her!"
"What fleet are they from? Let me check when I get back..."
Raine was indifferent to the hushed whispers of these people. If they dared to provoke him, they would only be asking for trouble.
Soon, a small passenger ship docked, and Raine and his people were the first to disembark.
"Sir, please show your invitation and confirm the participant for the tournament."
Raine handed over the invitation and turned to the crew, "Who wants to go?"
Onebear, Tureword, Shane, and Lindy signed up.
"Hmm? Twobear, aren't you going?"
"Captain, it's not appropriate for me to compete with my brother. I'll just skip it. I'll cheer for my brother!" Twobear said regretfully.
"Alright. Shobe, what about you? Didn't you say you were going to participate? You're not exactly young anymore."
"Captain, Ethan said I'm past the age limit," Shobe said, holding a cigar and shaking his head. "What's wrong with being 35? Can't I pursue happiness at 35?"
"Shobe, let it go. You're like me, just here to see our idol," Charge King said, stopping Shobe by the shoulder.
"You guys... I should've asked someone else to come, "Raine grumbled.
"Well, then it's just the four of us. We'll take four spots," Raine said, turning to the staff with an indifferent expression.
